Sasha Salzmann was born in Volgograd in 1985 and grew up in Moscow. In 1995, they emigrated to Germany with their family. Salzmann is an award-winning playwright, essayist, curator, and co-founder of the culture magazine Freitext and their work has been translated and performed in over 20 countries. Glorious People was longlisted for the German Book Prize 2021. In 2022, Salzmann received the prestigious Hermann-Hesse-Literaturpreis and the Preis der Literaturhäuser.

Imogen Taylor is a London-born translator who lives in Berlin. Her translation of Sasha Salzmann's Beside Myself was shortlisted for the 2021 Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize and the Schlegel-Tieck Prize 2020.